New Ulm weekly review., 1887-10-05

bllafe to this day that she might have
got we'll if she'd tried to; but she was
jist Worn out by the hardness av her
life wild that brute.
bic rain an wind, whin was all alone
wild her, she says:
$" Kathleen, I'm dyin', an yez must
go for yer father
We'll, cud see by the stare ay her
eyes an the black av her poor stubby
finger nails that she vas dyin' for a
fact; but as for gittin' me father!
- 'Mither, ye're out av yer had, ye
know ye are. says l. 'Av faith r was
here he wouldn't let We die III pace!'
81 name what / say said she,
quite calm. I can't die without for
givin' him all his diviltry, the black
guard, an LAWN me blessin' for him.
An We may git the praste an some
av the women while ye're out
s'Well it seemed to be cruel an hay
thenish to the last degree to lave her
alone on her death.bed; but she would
have it so an off I started in the
storm. / might have gone through
the fields, but there was a shorter
path, an along this / ran, over the
brow OF the mountain, as we called it.,
wild the rlber rolling along almost
st1 aieht down 200 or 800 feet below
me an the eSwlnd an rain tearin' an
howlin' in me ears. found me faith
er an sint Larry Mulvary, a dacent,
sober lad was kapin' company Wild
IN a hNot o,-o,. +o nv, fofa al,
the praste, an some women promis-
ed to come to our house wild the
praste an Larry. wouldn't t
have dared let me father walk
along the river path it he'd
been stupid drunk, but he was only
drunk, and that means as clear-head-
ed as a lawyer, SO I thought there was
no danger-an' no more there wasn't
Tor him. Well, we got along about
half way, wild him cursin' mither for
dyin' an me for not dyin', whin he
give me a fearful shove in the back,
an over wint, an the breath was
knocked out av me body before had
time to scream.
f'Well, whin at last Larry an the
praste an the women came over the
fields an got to our house, they
found me poor mither had got tired
av waintin' for US, and had died alone,
wild no one to say a prayer or close
her eyes. Thin they were scared an
wint back over the river path. There
they found my father snorin' like a.
hog, an carin' no more about mither
an me than nothin' at all-perfectly
uncOnsarned. 1t was an hour before
Larry got down to the brink, wild his
hands bleeding an his clothes in
rage, an found me lyin' across a
rock, drenthed wild the rain,
an me feet hangin' in the
wather. 1t was part ev me bad luck
that ] hadn't rolled off an been
drowned, for whin, after hours av
heard work, they got me up an put
me on q bed. was bruised from head
to foot by the stones and trees I'd
lodged against. an wan av me legs
was that broken an twisted an swol-
len that We cudn't tell shin from calf
Me mither was buried befose came to
me senses. and me father was buried
along wild her-he'd caught cold an
a fever out in the rain an so he died,
an good thing. too.
s'Well,I wint to the hospital, an the
docthors said I'd niver stand nor
stand nor walk again It's my belafe
that thin docthers nnended me leg a
dozen times an thin broke it for the
plisure av curin' it over again. Amy
how, there I stayed for two long years,
While Larry was mourningme as good
as dead. an gittln' in a. terrible way
av drinkin'. While had bad spell
he'd drink to drown his: grief: whin
was betther he'd dlink from Joy, an
betwane the two he kept at it pretty
much all the time But at last was
we'll, barrin' the hurt leg was six inches
shorter than the other, am thin Larry
said if I'd only have hlm'niver anoth-
er dhrOp would he touch. So,wan day
near sunset. whin the clouds were as
yellow as butter an the river the col.
or of gold, we rode across to Queens
ton an were married. Larry looked
as handsome as q picter.
':And you, too, I've ma. doubt,
said I.
s'May be So" admitted Mrs. Null
vady. II had a white dress on, an
it's lucky had, for comm home Lar
ry was bit screwed, an managed to
upset the boat. We cud both swim,
an we got out all right, boat an all;
but if I'd worn stiff dress>it I'D been
spoiled.
swell. Larry an l lived together
almost a year in, peace and'qulet. He
drank a little all the while, but it niv-
er made him hateful, and nary cross
word did git av him as bong as he
lived. Thet was the happy time of
my life. 1t was June that Mickey. me
baby. was born, and whin he was
three days old he was christened an
we had grand party in the evenin'.
Larry was quite wild wia pride an
whiskey, and whin the women had
fixed me an the baby up comforta-
BILE for the NIGHT an Everybody had
gone home, nothin' would do the
poor drunken,loon but he must dance
another jig. An ali Icud say wouldn't
StOD him. an; wild a. little GLASS lAmp